Blum Center for Developing Economies
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Professional Development |
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Business and Economics Community-based Service Learning Engineering Ethics Engineering Management General Engineering, Engineering Science International Engineering Education Technology and Society |
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Community - General |
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Blum Center for Developing Economies |
| Description: | Real-World Solutions to Combat Poverty. Transforming lives through education & action The Blum Center for Developing Economies was established at UC Berkeley in March 2006 as a focal point for the university's efforts to address global poverty. Mission: Increase the well-being of poor people in developing countries by designing, adapting and disseminating scalable and sustainable technologies and systems and by educating and inspiring a new generation of global citizens The Blum Center addresses the needs of the poor in developing countries by leveraging the University of California's knowledge and multidisciplinary expertise and by preparing students with the theoretical understanding, applied skills and experiential learning to enable them to become agents of change in the struggle against global poverty. |
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| Keywords: | poverty engineering ethics service learning |
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UC Berkeley Students Take on Global Poverty Al Gore speaks about Global Poverty at UC Berkeley Global Poverty and Practice Minor Darfur Stove Project |
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(f) Understand professional and ethical responsibility (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context (j) Integrate knowledge of contemporary issues |
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A great example of multidisciplinary service learning with a technology component. "Poverty: a complex and pressing challenge Nearly half of the world ? about three billion people ? lives on less than two dollars a day. The impact of extreme poverty is devastating for those directly affected. But all of us feel its repercussions: economic instability, environmental degradation, migration, political unrest and perhaps, most tragic of all: wasted human life. boy watches waterWhat?s needed: new ways of looking at an old problem Poverty is not new. But eradicating it requires original ways of thinking. Today, a unique opportunity exists for innovative thinkers to translate rapidly evolving scientific and technical advancements into real-world solutions for those in developing countries. If these solutions are grounded in grassroots realities and designed to be sustainable and scalable, they could literally transform life for billions of people. That?s why we?re here." |
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| Place Name: | Blum Center for Developing Economies |
| Place Type: | College/University |
| Place Location: | Haviland Rd, Berkeley, California 94720 United States |
| West Longitude: | -122.258976 |
| East Longitude: | -122.258971 |
| North Latitude: | 37.874896 |
| South Latitude: | 37.874891 |
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| Publication Date: | March 2009 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/ |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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